On 2020-08-27 10:24, Jan-Erik Wichmann wrote: > I have some problem with my laptop freezing when the screen is blank. > Basically every time I lock the screen (or close the lid) my laptop freezes > and cannot be woken up anymore. > The screen will stay black regardless of which buttons I press. > The only way to recover is to press and hold the power button to shut off the > computer. > Obviously, that's not very convenient. > Even more so as I cannot even bring my laptop to someone else's desk to > quickly show them something; I first need to reboot at their place. > My coworkers are already making fun of linux and how it is not suitable for > laptop use and maybe I should consider switching to Microsoft Windows instead. > They say: "Well, it is open source, so why don't you just go ahead and fix > the problem yourself?" > I wish I could, but I do not even know where the issue is. > journalctl seems to be unhelpful (see below of the output right before the > hard reboot). > So, any ideas of how to debug and hopefully solve this problem? > Thanks a lot!
I only have one laptop and it has been working fine for years. One thing to try first is to edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf to change HandleLidSwitch to HandleLidSwitch=ignore I don't recall if a reboot is needed for the change to take effect. -- The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
